Lincoln - With
only three games remaining in the 2012 regular season, the Nebraska soccer team
(6-9-1, 3-5-0 Big Ten) hits the road for a pair of games at Iowa and at
Illinois, before ending the regular season at home with Minnesota on Friday,
Oct. 26.

The Huskers will look to improve to 5-0-0 all-time
against the Iowa Hawkeyes (11-3-3, 2-3-3 Big Ten) on Thursday, Oct. 18, when NU
visits the UI Soccer Complex for a 7 p.m. game. The Hawkeyes started the season
with nine straight wins, before dropping their Big Ten opener at Illinois, 2-1.
Iowa went a perfect 11-0-0 during non-conference play, but has posted just a
2-3-3 record during league play. The Hawkeyes and Huskers enter Thursday in a three-way tie with Indiana for seventh
place in the Big Ten standings.

The game is scheduled to be streamed on BTN.com
(subscription required), and live stats will be available at Huskers.com.

After playing its first game of the year on a Thursday,
the Huskers head to Champaign, Ill., on Sunday, Oct. 21, for a Noon meeting
with the Illinois Fighting Illini (7-6-2, 4-3-1 Big Ten). Nebraska will be
looking for its first ever win in the series, as the Illini hold a 3-0-0
record, including a 3-1 win in Lincoln last season.

After winning the Big Ten Tournament last season and
finishing second in the regular-season standing, Illinois enters the week tied
for fourth in the Big Ten with Minnesota, as each team has posted a 4-3-1
record.

There will be no video stream of Sunday's game, but Huskers.com
will have live stats.

Tournament Fate
With just three games left in the regular season, the
Huskers are right in the hunt to qualify for the Big Ten Tournament in
Bloomington, Ind., at the end of the month.

The Huskers enter the week tied for seventh with both
Iowa and Indiana, but the Hoosiers have already earned an automatic bid to the
tournament as the host school.

Nebraska could drastically improve its standing this
weekend with a pair of wins, as Illinois currently sits tied for fourth with
Minnesota.

A pair of wins would move the Huskers ahead of Iowa and
either ahead or one point behind Illinois, depending on the outcome of the
Illini's game with Northwestern on Thursday.

Top 25
Nebraska sophomore Mayme Conroy enters the week ranked
21st in the country will 11 goals on the season, including her first career hat
trick at Wisconsin on Friday, Oct. 5.

Three players are tied for the national lead in goals
with 16 each, including Minnesota's Taylor Uhl, Furman's Stephanie DeVita and
Geogetown's Daphne Corboz.

In the Big Ten Conference, Conroy is tied for fourth with
Penn State's Maya Hayes and Christine Nairn. Ohio State's Tiffany Cameron and
Iowa's Cloe Lacasse are tied for second with 12 goals each, while Uhl leads the
league.

Young Fire Power
Of the Huskers' 22 goals this season, 20 of the goals have been scored by freshmen or
sophomores, including six from NU's freshmen class.

Senior Jordan Jackson and junior Stacy Bartels are the
only juniors or seniors to score a goal in 2012.

Sophomore Mayme Conroy leads the team with eight goals
after scoring one as a true freshman last season. Freshmen Katie Kraeutner and
Jaylyn Odermann, along with sophomore Hannah Dittmar are tied for second on the
team with two goals each, while freshman Alex Massey, freshman Caroline Flynn
and sophomore Caroline Gray have each scored one goal.

The Corona, Calif., native moved to third place this past
weekend on the career list with her 163rd save. She moved ahead of Jamie Klages
(2005-06), who now sits in fourth on the list with 156 career saves.

Next up on the list is 2012 Olympic bronze medalist
Karina LeBlanc, who totaled 206 saves during her four-year career from 1997 to
2000. Erin Miller holds the NU record with 239 career saves.

Earlier
this season, Stevens set a personal best with 204:54 minutes of scoreless play
in net over a four-game span. The streak started against Baylor on Friday, Aug.
31 and ended during the Northern Colorado game on Sunday, Sept. 16.